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In olden days, before we had game consoles and smartphones and the Internet, the modeling kit was a popular Christmas gift, usually aircraft, but also ships or cars, many of which were destined for short lives before being crash tested or participating in early adventures in pyromania. If—like me—you were (or still are) one of those people, you might rather enjoy this short film put together by the Bloodhound SSC crew as they put together the 1,000 mph land speed record car:

Pretty soon this collection of metal and carbon fiber will be running across the Hakskeen Pan in South Africa.

As we reported earlier this month, Bloodhound’s powertrain is close to finalized. A Rolls Royce EJ200 turbofan and Nammo hybrid rocket will sit, one atop the other, behind the safety cell that will hold RAF Wing Commander Andy Green, a man who already holds the distinction of being the only human to have broken the sound barrier on four wheels. If the video has whetted your appetite for more Bloodhound SSC, you might quite enjoy this Flickr album, courtesy of Bloodhound’s photographer Stephen Marjoram, and one of the mechanics has also been documenting the process in a thread over at Pistonheads.